binge eating ?:(

You need to be comfortable with being uncomfortable, if you're in a deficit, you'll be hungry, you'll just have to decide if your health or whatever you're trying to achieve is worth the hunger and for you to push the extra calories away that is not in your daily allowance. Up to you.

Sometimes getting out of the house helps. And not keeping junk food around too. What exactly are you eating on your binges?

My two cents. I struggle with binging, but less than before. I don't know exactly why things are a bit easier these days, but I have some ideas. First, the eating plan that I'm following right now doesn't restrict my calories very much. I think that I don't feel deprived as much as I did when I was restricting my calories more. I'm usually able to find a way to fit a sweet treat into my food plan every day, which keeps up the morale.

Second, I have dramatically cut down my consumption of caffeinated beverages, and I'm trying hard to cut down on artificial sweeteners. I have slowly come to realize that these two things make it hard for me to stick to my food plan. Third and similarly, I've started tracking my sodium intake through MFP. And I think I'm seeing that keeping my sodium down to reasonable levels (not restricting it -- just being sensible), minimized the cravings.

I'm also trying to get enough iron. I don't think I'm anemic, but I've felt more settled, somehow, since I started trying to get enough iron into my day. Maybe this is the case because many foods that are rich in iron are also full of other good nutrients.

Nevertheless, I *do* have a bad day from time to time. The last time I had one, I felt terrible until I found a youtube video by Stephanie Buttermore (a fitness fanatic) who deliberately had a massive cheat day (and I do mean massive) and then used a number of complex calculations to determine how much fat she might have gained as a result. While she did gain a bit of fat from her cheat day, her calculations made it clear to me that her binge was absolutely not the end of the world for her. She had some good guidance on what to do when a binge happens, namely, do your best to go back to normal the next day, without restricting. And maybe drink a bit more water for a few days. But otherwise, just love yourself, turn the page, and make the next day a new day.

I'll finish this by talking about your comment that you are an emotional eater, and I noticed you saying that it happens particularly when you are feeling rejected. Holy cow, this is incredibly insightful! If you haven't already, reading some resources on strategies for handling rejections, or getting a touch of therapy, might be avenues to consider. But even if you aren't able to do these things, the fact that you recognize this pattern is half the battle won. I thought I was an emotional eater, too. And I probably am. But for me, caffeine consumption contributed more than I expected to my emotional state. Until I cut down on my caffeine consumption, I don't think I realized how depressed it made me, and how that depression led me to reach towards copious amounts of unhealthy food. I'm much more even keeled without caffeine in my day.

Based on my experience, I encourage you to look for patterns in your food consumption also. Maybe you, too, have a food or foods that are contributing to your mood/emotional state much more than you thought.

Wow! I feel like I'm reading my own thoughts. I self sabotage by binging. I eat clean for a couple of weeks and then something will happen to derail my efforts and it takes another couple of weeks to get back..thereby undoing all the progress I'd made. I'm going to be more mindful when I find myself binging to see if there are any patterns.
Thanks for sharing.

I can totally relate to this, I Just give myself one cheat day aweek so I don't binge on things I crave. So this week I ate pizza+ hot cheetos "one whole bag"